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- catalog abstract "Studies of American industry frequently cite Lowell, Massachusetts, as an early model for business practices. Scholars have sought to explain the city's rise to prominence, the impact of its textile mills on workers and on commerce, and its part in regional development and American prosperity. In The Course of Industrial Decline, historian Laurence Gross looks beyond these issues. Focusing on Lowell's Boott Cotton Mills, he examines the industry's struggle to maintain its prominence, the causes of its decline, and its ultimate flight south. Gross puts much of the blame for the pattern of events on the mill-owners themselves. They resisted reinvestment, so their operations became less efficient. They kept antiquated machinery running long after it was safe to do so, and they were slow to respond to issues of worker safety. The increased textile demands of World War II, Gross explains, only forestalled the mills' inevitable demise. The Course of Industrial Decline not only throws new light on the interaction of labor, business, and technology but also examines a topic of increasing timeliness. As one of many American companies that succumbed to obsolete equipment, poor management, and changing markets, the Boott Cotton Mills experienced problems that have become all too familiar as America's industrial base continues to decline.".
- catalog contributor b4111763.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-276) and index.".
- catalog description "Studies of American industry frequently cite Lowell, Massachusetts, as an early model for business practices. Scholars have sought to explain the city's rise to prominence, the impact of its textile mills on workers and on commerce, and its part in regional development and American prosperity. In The Course of Industrial Decline, historian Laurence Gross looks beyond these issues. Focusing on Lowell's Boott Cotton Mills, he examines the industry's struggle to maintain its prominence, the causes of its decline, and its ultimate flight south. Gross puts much of the blame for the pattern of events on the mill-owners themselves. They resisted reinvestment, so their operations became less efficient. They kept antiquated machinery running long after it was safe to do so, and they were slow to respond to issues of worker safety. The increased textile demands of World War II, Gross explains, only forestalled the mills' inevitable demise. The Course of Industrial Decline not only throws new light on the interaction of labor, business, and technology but also examines a topic of increasing timeliness. As one of many American companies that succumbed to obsolete equipment, poor management, and changing markets, the Boott Cotton Mills experienced problems that have become all too familiar as America's industrial base continues to decline.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 279 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Course of industrial decline.".
- catalog identifier "0801844533 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Course of industrial decline.".
- catalog isPartOf "Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology ; new ser., no. 15".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Course of industrial decline.".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts Lowell".
- catalog subject "338.7/677/0097444 20".
- catalog subject "Boott Mills (Lowell, Mass.) History.".
- catalog subject "Cotton Production History".
- catalog subject "Cotton manufacture Massachusetts Lowell History.".
- catalog subject "Cotton textile industry Massachusetts Lowell History.".
- catalog subject "HD9879.B66 G76 1993".
- catalog subject "Textile factories Massachusetts Lowell History.".
- catalog title "The course of industrial decline : the Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1835-1955 / Laurence F. Gross.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".